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The Abe administration is considering creating a framework through which Self-Defense Forces personnel would participate in international missions involving European Union troops, under an envisioned permanent law on overseas SDF ...2 hours ago

The local LDP chapter headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe received donations from companies selected for government subsidies, while other Cabinet ministers and the head of the DPJ also became ...10 hours ago

Gunma University Hospital acknowledges negligence in the deaths of eight patients following laparoscopic liver surgery, faulting its staff for failing to look into early deaths and a surgeon for falsifying ...10 hours ago

A Hong Kong-based investment fund said Monday it has bought a commercial building in Osaka’s downtown Dotonbori district and hopes to place it on the tourist trail for Asian visitors. The building has a ...

Conflicting reports emerged on Monday about the availability of possible surveillance footage showing the slaying of Boris Nemtsov, a fierce Kremlin critic gunned down in Moscow, as top Russian officials again promised that his ...

Sadistic videos posted online this year showing a man abusing a toy poodle have sparked revulsion among some viewers and calls by activists for changes to the law. The seven videos show an unidentified ...

Whisky demand is rocketing in Japan, with producers scrambling to increase production as a period drama about the dram has the country hooked and after a homegrown single malt scooped the honors in a ...

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Only 40.5 percent of government subsidies granted to Tohoku reconstruction projects by municipalities and other entities between fiscal 2011 and 2013 was used as planned, according to a review by the Board of Audit. A total of ¥3.4 trillion was extended to 102 projects ...

Police fatally shot a homeless man during a “brutal” videotaped struggle in which an officer cried out that the man had grabbed his gun, the Los Angeles police chief said Monday. Video showed the man reaching toward the officer’s waistband, Chief Charlie Beck said. ...

Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, one of the Tohoku locales that was seriously damaged by the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami four years ago, is among the 12 cities that will host the 2019 Rugby World Cup matches. On Monday, the host cities were decided in the ...

Some Swedish delicacies, such as lutefisk (dried cod treated with lye), attract comments that are less than flattering. And when I say less than flattering, I mean downright slanderous. “Reminiscent of the afterbirth of a dog, or the world’s largest chunk of phlegm,” is ...

It has been a year since post-hardcore group Fact released an artist photo with the six members’ faces revealed. Before then, the band always wore traditional Japanese noh masks. “We wanted our fans to listen to our music without having to care about how ...